I am new to angular and I would like to put the application on Nginx
server on a docker container.
1. Running the angular application through @angular/cli
To do that, I did the following steps:
1.1. Installation of @angular/cli and creation of an angular4 application
sudo npm install -g @angular/cli
ng new angular4-on-nginx-with-docker
1.2. Serving the application through npm start
The angular application is working correctly through
npm start
Now, I want to avoid the command npm start
because I am thinking about developing a dockerized application. To do that, below is:
2. Running the angular application on nginx
2.1. Dockerfile
file for nginx
FROM debian:jessie
MAINTAINER NGINX Docker Maintainers "docker-maint@nginx.com"
ENV NGINX_VERSION 1.11.9-1~jessie
RUN apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://pgp.mit.edu:80 --recv-keys 573BFD6B3D8FBC641079A6ABABF5BD827BD9BF62 \
&& echo "deb http://nginx.org/packages/mainline/debian/ jessie nginx" >> /etc/apt/sources.list \
&& apt-get update \
&& apt-get install --no-install-recommends --no-install-suggests -y \
ca-certificates \
nginx=${NGINX_VERSION} \
&& rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
# forward request and error logs to docker log collector
RUN ln -sf /dev/stdout /var/log/nginx/access.log \
&& ln -sf /dev/stderr /var/log/nginx/error.log
EXPOSE 80 443
CMD ["nginx", "-g", "daemon off;"]
2.2. The config of nginx is below:
server {
server_name angular4.dev;
root /var/www/frontend/src;
try_files $uri $uri/ index.html;
error_log /var/log/nginx/angular4_error.log;
access_log /var/log/nginx/angular4_access.log;
}
2.3. The docker-compose.yml
version: '2'
services:
nginx:
build: nginx
ports:
- 88:80
volumes:
- ./nginx/frontend:/var/www/frontend
- ./nginx/default.conf:/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
- ./nginx/logs/nginx/:/var/log/nginx
2.4. building the docker image and running the container
docker-compose up -d --build
2.5. Identification of the IP address of the container
docker inspect angular4onnginxwithdocker_nginx_1 | grep IPA
#"SecondaryIPAddresses": null,
#"IPAddress": "",
# "IPAMConfig": null,
# "IPAddress": "172.18.0.2",
Open your browser on 172.18.0.2
The issue
I think that npm packages are not accessible... I am not sure what is wrong exactly. But, what I can say is that the page is empty and without having any error message in the console.
Below is the code obtained when using nginx
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Angular4 on nginx with docker</title>
<base href="/">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="favicon.ico">
</head>
<body>
<app-root></app-root>
</body>
</html>
This the code of the page obtained by the use of the command npm start
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Angular4 on nginx with docker</title>
<base href="/">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="favicon.ico">
</head>
<body>
<app-root></app-root>
<script type="text/javascript" src="inline.bundle.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="polyfills.bundle.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="styles.bundle.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="vendor.bundle.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="main.bundle.js"></script></body>
</html>
So, what is wrong???
A repo for that example is available on github
If anyone still struggling with production setup of angular 2/4/5 app + Nginx(i.e. Without Docker), then here is the complete solution:
Suppose you want to deploy your angular app at HOST:
http://example.com
and PORT:8080
Note - HOST and PORT might be different in your case.Make sure you have
<base href="/">
in you index.html head tag.Firstly, go to your angular repo (i.e. /home/user/helloWorld) path at your machine.
Then build /dist for your production server using the following command:
ng build --prod --base-href http://example.com:8080
Now copy /dist (i.e. /home/user/helloWorld/dist) folder from your machine's angular repo to the remote machine where you want to host your production server.
Now login to your remote server and add following nginx server configuration.
Now restart nginx.
That's it !! Now you can access your angular app at http://example.com:8080
Hope it will be helpful.
One thing that's wrong is that you are trying to publish your source files, instead of doing a production build using the cli and publish the output of these files.
ng start
is used for local development. When you are happy with your outcome, you can useng build --prod
to build your application, and whatever resides in your/dist
folder should be placed in the docker.If you want to have everything in your docker, you should
ng build --prod
after creating your new project, and then point the root of yournginx
to/var/www/frontend/dist;
. This will highly increase the boot time of your docker though. Obviously depending on the size of your project